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350th Anniversary: The
Smith College history department has joined with Historic Northampton
to
celebrate the city's 350th anniversary with a yearlong lecture
series that began last November and continues through December
2004. Local as well
as international scholars who have conducted research in
the area will participate in the public lectures. The lecture
series opened with a
look at the history of native peoples who inhabited the region
long before the arrival of white settlers. "There is a very important
body of scholarship that has been developed around the history
of this region," Kerry
W. Buckley, executive director of Historic Northampton, told
The Daily Hampshire Gazette. "The series will give us a chance
to share that with the community." In fall 2004, the University
of Massachusetts Press will publish A Place Called Paradise:
Culture and Community in
Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-2004, a comprehensive anthology
including the articles upon which all the lectures were based.
Making
History: On the weekend of April 16 to 18, 2004, three generations
of Smith students of color will be on campus
to share their
college experiences. Alumnae returning to Smith to attend
the first "Smith
Women of Color: Building Community" festivities will play an important
role in the weekend's events, providing support to current students
and encouragement to prospective ones. The weekend coincides
with the Smith Office of Admission's Discovery Weekend for prospective
students of color, which usually draws as many as 90 high
school seniors. Two
established affinity groups -- the Black Alumnae of Smith College
and the Association of Latina Alumnae of Smith College -- have scheduled
meetings, and organizers of the weekend hope that new affinity
groups might also form. Some three thousand alumnae who have
identified themselves
as African American, Asian Pacific American, Latina, Native
American or "multicultural" have been invited to the weekend,
but everyone is welcome. Further information is available
from JoAnne Lyons
Wooten '74 at Joanne_wooten@hotmail.com or Robin Feldman at the
Alumnae Association of Smith College, rfeldman@smith.edu.
Above, left: In late November, Emerson House held
its 71st annual Medieval Banquet, a traditional event hosted
by seniors for invited professors. Emerson juniors, sophomores
and first-year students
provide the entertainment. Photo by Fish/Parham.
Right: The bulletin board in the
basement of Seelye Hall reflects the hustle and bustle of
campus life. Chi Bui '05
adds another post to the cluttered board. Photo by Jim Gipe. Rally
Roundup: Smith's annual Rally Day convocation on February
18 will feature Carol Thompson Cole '73, a former member of Smith's
board of trustees, a former city administrator and deputy
mayor of Washington, D.C., and current president of the Curtex
Group, a consulting firm that
specializes in project management, organizational development
and community economic development. Four other alumnae will
also be awarded Smith Medals
that day: Rose Epstein Frisch '39, Amy Kaiser '65, Anne Moore '65
and Elizabeth Olson Goldring Piene '67. For up-to-date information,
visit www.smith.edu/rallyday.
Senior architecture majors inspect the
walls of a garden shed which they designed and built as an
assignment for an advanced architecture course. The shed, which
was constructed
at Hillyer Hall on commission, will be installed in Holyoke
in the spring. Photos by Fish/Parham.
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